Happy Friday!

Okay, so things are going well.... i do not really know what to write so here,s some highlights (and no, i haven,t found the apostrophe yet on these keyboards, so you get commas, lots of commas)

1. classes are good....history is really really boring and on thursdays it,s wayyyyy too early! my literature professor is really really cool, which makes me happy. the writing class will be fun because it,s all creative writing. and the oral class will be alright, i guess, i dunno....it,s kinda boring so far. finally, the resistance class will, ummmmm, well, it,s there.

2. I ate duck for the first time yesterday which amused me.

3. my mom is still really really cool.

4. my feet still hurt a lot. i am going to buy some boots, i think. thats what all the women down here wear and there must be some reasoning to that...the roads are just really really uneven, so it,s really hard to walk on and my arches hurt and my ankles do too.

5. i can tell my french is getting better already because my mom has started talking a little bit faster to me. so, the goal of the entire trip is working.

it,s really weird....you go your whole life living in this world where everyone speaks english, and sure you realize that they speak other languages in different places...but you don,t REALLY realize it until you,re there. i keep half expecting people to just say, alright, we,re done....and just start speaking english. but these people really do speak french...this is their life. this is what they do everyday. it,s really crazy. and i love it.

i realized recently that i forgot some key things such as the belt to my coat....lol. and painkillers. i can,t figure out how to buy painkillers here....oh, well.

I,ve got a little bout of homesickness right now....i really really miss you guys....like woah. :( i have not bought postcards yet, but i promise i will, lol. i don,t know how to send them either or how much they will be to send, so i need to figure that out a la poste!

yesterday my mom said that she would take me and two of my friends to marseille one weekend and i immediatley thought of which one of my friends i would take until i realized that you all are in the US! sobbbbbbbbb. i keep expecting to run into you guys on the street or for one of you to call and be like, let,s hang out....so weird, so weird.

anyways, im going to go buy some cheap chic french boots, so i will update another day.

do you guys want to know anything in particular? so much is going on i don,t really know where to start with these blogs.

i miss you all dearly, but it,s 1 week down and 10 to go.

bisous

always,
amanda